Almond Cookies

Ingredients for 60 small or 30 large cookies:
- 375 grams flour
- 225 grams butter (room temperature)
- 225 grams sugar
- 1 big egg
- 1 teaspoon bakingpowder
- 2 teaspoons almond extract


Method:

1. Mix the flower and the bakingpowder.

 2. Mix the butter and the flour. Add the sugar, the egg and the almond extract to the flour.

3. Knead your dough until it looks like the picture below. Make a big ball and leave it in the fridge for an hour.

4. Dust your counter with some flour and roll out the dough. Cut out the cookies.

5. Preheat the oven up to 170 degrees and place the cookies in the oven. Bake the cookies for 10 minutes. The cookies should never be completely brown! Let the cookies cool.

6. You can make all types of cookies!

Mini pink cupcakes

These cute cupcakes are the size of a bonbon!

Ingredients for 50 cupcakes:

- 30 grams self-raising flour

- 30 grams sugar

- 30 grams butter

- 1 teaspoon milk

- 1dash of vanilla extract

- bonbonlines (50 pieces)

- 250 grams powdered sugar

- 80 grams butter

- 4 drops pink food coloring

- a dash of vanilla extract

- 125 ml milk

Method:

1. Make the cupcake batter by mixing up the self-raising flour, the sugar, the butter, the milk and the vanilla extract.
Preheat the oven up to 180 degrees.

2. Fill the liners with 2 tiny teaspoons. And place them in to the oven

3. Bake the cupcakes for max. 10 minutes.

4. Take the cupcakes out of the oven and let them cool down before you add the icing!

5. You can make buttercream icing by mixing the powdered sugar, the milk, the butter, the food coloring and the vanilla extract.
For this flower I used a star tip which has 1 lager opening. Place the tip into the pipingbag and add the icing. .

6. Place the large opening on the cupcake. This will create the large petal. Pipe your petals by working your way in and out.

7. Slowly turn the cupcake as you are piping te petals.Try to close the flower in the middle.
It takes a few cupcakes to practise but it will get better!

Dutch Pancakes

Ingredients:

- 250 grams flour

- 5 dl milk

- 2 eggs

- a pinch of salt

- 2 teaspoons of cinnamon

- butter for the baking

Method:

1.  Mix the milk with the 2 eggs and the pinch of salt.

2. Add the flour and the cinnamon.Keep mixing until you have a bit of a thick batter.

3. Melt some butter in a pan.

4. Pour the batter in to the pan and bake the pancakes golden brown on both sides,

Blueberry Cupcakes

Ingredients for 12 cupcakes

- 125 grams self-raising flour

- 125 grams butter

- 125 grams sugar

- 1 box of blueberries

- a dash of milk

- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

- 2 eggs

- 100 grams powdered sugar

- a dash of water

Method

1. Start by mixing the butter, the eggs, the milk and the vanilla.

    

2. Preheat the oven up to 180 degrees. Add the flour and the sugar to the buttermixture. Add the blueberries as soon as you have a nice cupcake batter. Gently mix the berries in the batter.

3. Put the batter in the baking tray and bake the cupcakes for 20/25 minutes.

4. You can make an easy icing by mixing the powdered sugar and a tiny bit of water.The more water you add, the thinner your icing will be.

5. Let the icing dry and eat the cupcakes the same day because of the fruit!

Pastry Cream

- 1 vanilla bean

- 5 dl milk

- 150 grams sugar

- 4 big eggyolks

- 2 tablespoons flour

Method

1. Start with the vanilla bean.Slice it open and scrape out all of the seeds. You won't lose anything because vanilla is very sticky.

 

 

2. Place a pan with 5 dl milk on a medium heat. Add the vanilla. Boil the milk.

 3. Seperate the 4 eggs. Make sure that there are no eggwhites! Mix the 4 eggyolks with half of the sugar (75 grams) until it starts to foam.

4. Add 2 tablespoons of flour to the eggmixture and stir until it gets thick.

5. Add a bit of the boiling milk to the eggmixture. Mix it properly and add the egg/milkmixture to the rest of the milk.Stir until the cream has an even yellow color.

6. Boil the pastry cream for about 3 minutes. It has to look like boiling lava. Pour the mixture into a container and store in the fridge.

7.  The pastry cream should be completely cool before you use it.

Chocolate Chip Cookie

Chocolate Chip Cookie

Ingrediënten:
- 160 grams flour
- 115 grams butter
- 1 egg
- 180 grams sugar
- 200 grams dark chocolate


Method:

1. Chop the chocolate in to small pieces like the picture below.

2. Preheat the oven up to 200 degrees.
3. Mix the egg, the sugar and the butter.Slowely add the flour and mix it into one sticky dough.

4.  Mix the chocolate into the dough and make little balls.Press the balls flat and place them on your baking tray.

5.  Bake the cookies for 15 minutes. Make sure to keep a good distance between the cookies because they get bigger in the oven! They tend to double in size!